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☆ Top moments from the White House Correspondents Dinner
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Kaanita Iyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Washington CNN —President Joe Biden joked about a range of topics at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday but struck a serious tone as he called for the release of wrongfully detained Americans abroad. In attendance Saturday evening was Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was freed from Russia late last year after being wrongfully detained. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden held a pull-aside meeting with Griner and her wife at the event, per the White House pool. During the event, identical twin brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott, who host “Property Brothers” on HGTV, drew big laughs as their sketch-style video showcased how they would renovate the White House. “We’ve been doing this a long time and we think we know how to turn the White House into the White Home,” the pair said in video.

☆ Should I Refinance My Mortgage?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +9 min

By Michele LernerFor most people, the prime reason to refinance a mortgage is to lower their interest rate and monthly payments. While there are many reasons people refinance (more on that later), normally when someone has a low mortgage rate, they don’t refinance into a higher one, says Erin Wood, a financial planner with the Carson Group in Omaha, Neb. Here are a few reasons to refinance your mortgage:To reduce your paymentsThe simplest way to lower your monthly payments is if you can refinance into a lower mortgage rate, which reduces the interest you pay on your loan. Generally, closing costs for a mortgage refinance range from 2% to 5% of the new loan amount. That expense means it only makes sense to refinance if you can reduce your mortgage rate by half a percentage point or more, says Middleman.

☆ Premarket stocks: Did Jerome Powell just bust the market rally?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

London CNN Business —Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has the power to make or break markets these days. “Essentially, it killed the pivot dreams.”Economic data, particularly for the labor market, still looks relatively strong. “Big advertisers that we traditionally get spend from are not spending this quarter,” Roku (ROKU) CEO Anthony Wood told analysts after the company reported earnings on Wednesday. Ford saw its October US sales slump 10% over the last year as the company continued to battle supply chain difficulties. In March, the company said it would ship some vehicles without some less crucial computer chips and add them later.

☆ Roy Wood Jr. and Desi Lydic on humor, politics and the future of ‘The Daily Show’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —If Roy Wood Jr. and Desi Lydic know who’s taking over for Trevor Noah as host of “The Daily Show,” they aren’t sharing. For Wood, “The Daily Show” – with its mix of comedy and current events – is a gig that allows him to combine his passions. For Lydic, a highlight is doing her segment “Foxsplains,” which spoofs right wing media coverage. Being able to find humor in difficult stories – from politics to race and the pandemic – is part of the magic of “The Daily Show,” Wood said. !’ and then it was right back to work,” Wood said.

☆ Fact Check-Clip showing crowd running toward film crew was captured in Birmingham in 2013
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Instead, the footage was filmed years before the Russian invasion in 2022 and shows behind-the-scenes of a science fiction movie captured in Birmingham, UK in 2013. The 28-second clip shows three individuals behind a camera with another holding a megaphone in a city square. The scene of the clip currently circulating online matches a scene that features in the trailer of ‘Invasion Planet Earth’ (0.42s) (bit.ly/3MukI87). The scene also wasn’t filmed in Ukraine, as claimed online, and instead was captured in Victoria Square, Birmingham. The clip shows filming of a scene in the movie ‘Invasion Planet Earth’ that was captured in 2013 in Birmingham, UK.

☆ Google Pixel event: Tech giant unveils new smartphones and its first smartwatch
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Google on Thursday unveiled its new Pixel 7 smartphone lineup and its first-ever Pixel smartwatch, packed with tracking and health features from its subsidiary Fitbit. The new Google Pixel 7 and Google Pixel 7 Pro GoogleBoth models run on Google’s new Tensor G2 processor, which powers the device’s machine learning and speech recognition capabilities, and several camera features. But one area where Google could make a greater impact this year is with the introduction of the Pixel watch. The Google Pixel Watch GoogleThe new 41 mm Google Pixel Watch features a circular, domed-shaped Gorilla Glass display that’s scratch- and water-resistant. The Pixel Watch comes in black, gold and silver finishes.

☆ Apple stock drops on concerns about iPhone 14 demand
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN Business —Shares of Apple fell 4% in early trading Wednesday amid concerns about demand for the company’s latest lineup of iPhones. Apple (AAPL) is said to have abandoned efforts to increase production of its iPhone 14 lineup by 6 million units in the second half of this year after lower-than-expected demand, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. The company is now said to be planning to produce about 90 million iPhone 14 units in that time period, roughly in line with the year prior, according to the report. The iPhone 14 went on sale earlier this month, with mostly incremental updates. But the biggest change is arguably the lock screen, which now has an always-on display, similar to Android devices.

☆ James Earl Jones is retiring as the voice of Darth Vader
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —James Earl Jones, who for decades has provided Darth Vader’s iconic, menacing voice, will not record new lines for new “Star Wars” projects. Instead, Jones’ voice will live on artificially through an AI program that can recreate his voice, so Vader can deliver new lines of dialogue and maintain the commanding bass sound that made him a widely feared villain, Vanity Fair reported. Jones, 91, last recorded a Vader voice cameo for the 2019 sequel “The Rise of Skywalker,” sound editor Matthew Wood told Vanity Fair. “So how do we move forward?”James Earl Jones' signature bass has helped make Darth Vader an iconic villain. Jones, an EGOT-winning actor, has voiced Vader since 1977’s “A New Hope,” though his role was uncredited for that project.

☆ It’s not just you. Tommy Bahama beach chairs are everywhere
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-03 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“You see them all over most major coastal beaches during the summertime.”A Tommy Bahama beach chair in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Tommy Bahama doesn’t make its chairs and beach goods. Instead, Tommy Bahama licenses its name and design for the beach goods and receives royalties from sales at retailers. So they came up with “‘Tommy Bahama’ because I liked the resonation of the two words together.”The founders had recently left the company, and the country was suffering through the Great Recession, which dragged down Tommy Bahama sales. Correction: Tommy Bahama CEO Doug Wood said the company sells up to two million of its beach chairs a year and 700,000 umbrellas annually.

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